Improvement in beer-coolers



H. F. SCHMIDT. Beer-Cooler.

No. 204,380. Patented May 28,1878.

ATTORN EY H. FRANK SCHMIDT, O

IMPROVEMENT IN Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 204,380,

' April 20,

F QUINCY, ILLINOIS.

BEER-COOLERS.

dated May 28, 1878; application filed 1878.

To all whom it may concern- Be it known that I, H. FRANK SCHMIDT, of Quincy, in the county of Adams and State of Illinois, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Beer-Coolers; andI do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The drawing is a representation of a top view of my improved beer-cooler, partly in section.

This invention has relation to improvements devices for cooling beer and ale.

The nature of the invention consists in combining with a beer-cooling pipe having a continuous central Wooden core, forming with the said pipe a narrow annular beer-passage, a jacket surrounding a portion of said pipe, and provided with an independentiuduct and educt for water, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In the annexed dr ignates a retrov awings, the letter A deserted pipe of any suitable metal, composed of the parallel parts a and the bent coupling-sections I), connected togeth' er in the usual Way, and forming tight joints with each other.

Inside of the pipe A is a less diameter than sai therewith a shallow an The rod B is wooden rod, B, of d coil, and forming nular beer-passage, 1. continuous, and is composed of and the curved seethe straight sections 0 tions d.

The pipe-sections a b and the rod-sections 0 ch other, respectively,

relative posis i, projecting d are concentric with ea and they are maintained in this tion by means of the radial arm from the rod-sections, and bearing against the inner wall of the pipe. All or a portion of this pipe may be placed in an ice-box, G, being supported by a suitable cradle, e, therein, and designed to be covered with ice.

D indicates a metallic jacket, covering a portion of this pipe A-say one or more bends thereof-and connected by an ordinary pipe with a spigot or cook of a water-supply pipe or cistern, at f, and having a distinct educt, g, at a distance from the beer-educt h sufficient to prevent casual mixture of the liquids issuing from the said educts. The wooden corerod B causes the beer to pass through the pipe A in a thin annular stream, and it is thus the more effectively acted upon by the ice in the box. The beer reaches the jacketed portion of the pipe in a partly-cool condition, and it is then subjected to the cooling action of a continuously-flowing stream of water in the jacket, so that it issues from the educt h in a cold state, the water escaping Warm from the educt 9.

What I claim as new, by Letters Patent, is-

The combination, with a beer-cooling pipe having a central continuous Wooden core ex tending through it, and forming a narrow an nular passage next the pipewall, of a jacket surrounding said pipe, and having an induct and educt for the water, substantially as speci' fied.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

H. FRANK SCHMIDT.

and desire to secure Witnesses:

ERNST SCHWARZ, MLLLARD MYERS. 

